Change container



Jan. 23, 1958 G. R. MCQUISTON EIAL CHANGE CONTAINER Filed Nov. 9, 1956 m. mm 8 ML m a m m m m United States Patent Ofiice Z,82l,32l Patented Jan. 28, 1958 CHANGE CONTAINER Glen R. McQuiston and Harry N. Leisure, Marion, Ind.

Application November 9, 1956, Serial No. 621,274

1 Claim. (Cl. 220-18) The present invention relates a simple, practical and convenient container for coins and change, with or without a note holding clip, and which may be supported for use on a front entrance door, frame or the like at a users place of residence.

An object of the invention is to provide home owners, and residents, generally speaking, with a pocket-like coin and note holder which may be utilized, whenever necessary or desired, to facilitate making of door-to-door collections of money such as may be due certain collectors, for example ones newsboy, milkman, iceman and so on.

In carrying out the principles of the over-all concept and unbreakable commercial plastics, or an equivalent pocket-like coin receptacle or holder, is utilized. A so called beaded chain of a suitable length is also employed and has one end permanently anchored on a relatively fixed support and the other end attached to an appropriate portion of the holder, means, as a general rule, being provided whereby the holder may be suspended or hung in its coin containing but readily accessible position.

Novelty is also predicated on a chain-equipped coin holding pocket in conjunction with a marginally flanged base which latter is nailed or otherwise secured on a wall or fixed support and which when it is fastened in place, provides a space between the wall and its body portion which space is susceptible of receiving and accommodatingly storing the chain.

Other objects, features and advantages will become more readily apparent from the description and the accompanying sheet of official drawings.

In the accompanying drawing wherein like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the views:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the invention in one of its varying embodiments;

Fig. 2 is a central vertical sectional view through the structure depicted in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view on a slightly smaller scale and similar to Fig. 1 and wherein a second simplified embodiment of the invention is presented;

Fig. 4 is a central vertical sectional view through the modification seen in Fig. 3; and

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a further embodiment of the invention.

Because it is the simpler of the forms disclosed in the drawings the form shown in Figs. 3 and 4 is to be described first.

Before taking up the drawings in explicit detail it is to be pointed out that the invention in a broader aspect than specifically drawn has to do with a coin containing pocket of any shape, size and material, with or without a note holding clip, and any suitable means, such as a chain, cord or an equivalent flexible element whereby it may be anchored on a relatively stationary support, a door, wall or the like for example.

Referring now to Fig. 3 the holder is denoted as a unit by the numeral 6 and comprises a substantially flat rectangular panel 8 carrying a pocket-like holder 10. It will be noticed that the mouth of the pocket 12 is constantly open and that the pocket may, if desired, be provided with a coin feeding or intake slot 14. The upper end of the panel or wall 8 has one end 16 of a beaded chain 18 connected thereto in the manner shown. This same upper end portion is provided with a suitably attached spring finger 20 which constitutes a holding clip. This may be employed to hold written hand notes or messages which the resident may desire to pass on to the newspaper boy or other caller. In the form of the invention depicted best in Fig. 3 the holding pocket is mounted on a transparent plastic base 22. This comprises a simple panel 24 of rectangular or equivalent form having lateral marginal flanges 26 and bolt holes 28 whereby it may be nailed, screwed or otherwise fastened as at 30 to a door, wall or other stationary support 32 (see Fig. 4). When it is thus attached it will be seen that between the wall 32 and the underneath side of the plate or panel 24 a space 34 is provided. It is into this space that the slack or unused portion of the chain is collected and held when the coin holder is suspended as seen in Figs. 3 and 4. To accomplish this the central portion of the panel 24 is provided with an elongated slot 36 and bevelled marginal edge 38. The attached forwardly or outwardly end portion 16 of the chain passes through the slot and the lower edge of the slot serves as a keeper for one of the ball beads in the chain, as is evident in Fig. 3 in particular. In other words, one end 16 is attached to the pocket 6 and the intermediate portion is passed through the bevelled edge slot 36 and the other end of the chain is anchored at 40 on the flange at the left as seen in Fig. 3. In this same figure the holder is shown in its suspended position with the chain stored away in the space 34. Assuming that the coins have been placed in the pocket by way of the mouth of the pocket or the slot 14 the pocket is hung up in its ready to use or available position (Fig. 3). When the newspaper boy comes along to collect the money due him either for one day or for one week, however arrangements are made, he simply catches hold of the pocket 10 and lifts it up and disengages the chain from the keeper slot 36, empties the pocket in an obvious manner and either rehangs it or lets it hang down in the position shown in phantom lines in Fig. 4. As a general rule the resident would be the one depended upon to see that the beaded chain is properly restored to the space 34 as depicted in Fig. 4 as is evident.

Concerning now an aspect of the invention even simpler than that already described, reference is bad to Fig. 5. Here the stationary support is denoted at 42 and is a wall, door or the like (not detailed). One end portion 44 of the beaded chain 46 is anchored on the wall and the other end is attached as at 48 to the coin holding and collecting pocket 50. This pocket is approximately the same as that already described in connection with Figs. 3 and 4 and includes a note-holding finger or clip 52 and an extending upper end or back wall 54 and in this arrangement the wall 54 is provided with an enlarged hole 56 which may be hung on a nail or the like 58. Here the chain is completely exposed and is not housed in a space 34 as seen in Fig. 4.

Taking up now the form of the invention as seen in Fig. 1 it will be noted that the coin holding pocket here, that is the one at the bottom, is denoted by the numeral 60 and it is much like that seen in Fig. 5. In fact it has an extended wall portion 62 with an opening 64 which is hung on a headed screw or similar fastener 66. Here the latter instead of being a wall or door is mounted on the panel portion 68 of a base plate 70 similar to the plate 22 already described. The holding clip is here referred to by the numeral 72 and the chain by the numeral 74 with one end of the chain fastened at 76 to the coin pocket and the other end anchored at 78 on one of the Thecoin pocket at thetop is here-denoted at 88*and' has the article holdin clip or-fihger 90 munted on the pocket forming wall 92 as at 94; Otherwise this arrangement is similar to'that seen in Fig.- 3 and therefore it will be noticed that the upper extend'ed'wall or panel 96 has the chain 98 attached thereto with the chain passing through a slot 100having a bevelled marginal edge 102. The opposite end of the chain is suitably anchored as at 104 on one of the marginalflanges 80.

The basic theme or principle is the same throughout the several modifications as seen and the construction is simpleand the mode of useis clear; A more limited descriptionistherefore thought to be unnecessary.

It is evident that in actual practice the surfaces or faces of the container may besuch that theymay be satisfactorily used to receive printing, indicia orother types of ads, including the names and addresses of "owners andthe disclosure is to be interpreted accordingly.

Changes in shape, size, materials and-rearrangements may be resorted to in actual use without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope-of the invention previously rendered comprisinga substantially fiatbase panel adapted to-be attached to a stationary support and: havinglateral rearwardly directed marginal flanges which;

when they reside in contact with a selected surface of saidtsupport, provide a chain collecting. andwpocketing.

space, an intermediate portion of said panel having a chain slot a marginal portion of which is bevelled to featheredge thinness so that it may function as keeper means, a coin holding and dispensing pocket normally open at its upper end to assist in dumping coins therefrom into a collectors hand, .said pocket having a flat wall adapted to be superimposed on the obverse face of said panel, and an elongatedQtethering:chain of flexibly joined beads normallyconfined in said pocketing space, said chain having one end'anchored on a marginal portion of vsaidipanel and theJother end portion passing outwardly through said slot and secured to an upper portion of the wall of said 'pockeh'certain' ofthe flexibly joined beads of said chain being releasably connectible with edges forming a crotch portion at the bottom of said slot in a manner permitting the chain to function as the sole means for operatively'connecting the coin holding pocket with said panel.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Ch'amberlin Ian. 15, 1957 

